Welcome to the promotional site for “Dave the Potter”, an interarts research collaboration that engages archival historical and literary research and creative work in poetry, art, music and dance to explore nineteenth-century African American history through a focus on “Dave the Potter’s” pottery. This project is supported in part through the Interdisciplinary Humanities Research Center at the University of Delaware.

Jonathan-Green-June-2008

Jonathan Green is the first individual of Gullah ancestry to train at a professional art school, Jonathan Green has created an acclaimed body of work that documents this rural culture, which emerged among West African slaves who lived on the Sea Islands or along the adjacent coast of South Carolina and Georgia.